Maggie's analytical question

Our text opens with this sentence: "People who read the Gospels assume that these books tell stories about jesus simply as they happened.  But is that true?"

The text says that this is not true, because the Gospels that we have today were written using both a written story source and an oral story source.  These stories could have been changed or modify, and some parts could have been made up, too.  

I agree with the text, because I think that they are right.  We don't know if the stories are true or they have been changed or modify, and they might have made up some things, too, and we don't have any written sources (that were written many years ago) to compare them with todays written sources.